‘Linpan Cloud Eye’ frames the rural scenario of rural China
Shanghai-based studio Archie Constitution This landmark designs Linapan Cloud Eye, which is as a community center in a rural village Kingxia Town. ChinaSichuan Province. A three-level building can be found on one hour drive from Chengdu. Surrounded by bamboo The forest and mountain streams serve as a cultural and community health center, embracing the natural topography of the project site.
The center is tucking in a hill clearing where a stream enters the east. Archie-Union retained the dense bamboo grove and arranged the program around a small courtyard that moves upwards with the slope. The activity location occupies the lower two floors, and the roof of a third floor opens to the mountain scenes. It creates a parallel relationship with a vertical layering pass cliffuside and frames distant fields Roof Aperture, inspiring its name, ‘Cloud came.’
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Archie-Union’s digital designed roof
Visitors enter with a bamboo-focused path, which Team On Archie-Union Designs to hide Linapan Cloud Eye until the last twist. A flowing roof canopy directs them to a series of external platforms that combine internal and external locations. Three primary courtyards – a bamboo entry, a central green and a roof roof – are open for community ceremonies and everyday use. The widespread openings and covered walkways reflect traditional Sichuan typology while maintaining clear circulation.
The building can be recognized by its dramatic roof, the sculpture construction is supported by three curved steel beams. The accurate geometric of these beams was generated through digital modeling, then rationalized in segments directly for efficient construction. Locally prepared a skin of bamboo eliminates roof and handrail, which brings an element of regional craft to contemporary architecture. These natural textures soften the structure of concrete and steel and strengthen the interaction of the center with their environment.
Linpain Cloud Eye sits inside a bamboo forest in Sichuan province of China
Robotic craft for a rural site
A major internal feature of Linpane Cloud Eye is its ‘water wall’, a 3D-affected element made by Archie-Union, which is to catch the movement of nearby creek water in fabricated folds. The architects used the algorithm design to translate the water shifting surface into a machine-elective code, allowing robots to create panels with accuracy. The result brings a digital argument to a project, otherwise its handicraft is defined by bamboo work and rural design language.
The elevated ground-floor regions hover over the bamboo grove, while the upper levels offer cool space and panoramic platforms. By combining advanced construction methods with vernacular forms and local crafts, the project sets a contemporary example for rural development that respects its landscape and lends a place for the community.
The building follows the natural slope with three vertical levels
Flowing roof guides visitors through courtes and roofs
Traditional bamboo weave softens concrete and steel structure
